Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Harbor,
Aitken, James. -1777. **H_.99c.199 The life of James Aitkin, alias Jack the Painter, who was executed
for setting fire to Portsmouth-Dock .. .
— London: Published by George Smeeton... [1780.] (18) pp. Colored plate. Sm. 8°. The author pretends that he took part in the Boston Tea Party, and that he set fire to the dockyard at Portsmouth with the approval of Silas Deane, American agent in France.
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